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Minister of Foreign Affairs
My Lord,
I have the honor to announce to your lordship the arrival in the waters off the �Mersey� with the vessel, lately a ship alone under my command, belonging to the �Confederate States of America�- The singular position in which I find myself places and the absence of all precedents on the august will , I trust, induce your Lordship to pardon a harty [?] to a few facts connected with the cruise lately made by the this ship. I commissioned the ship in October 1864 � under orders from the Navel Department of the Confederate States and in pursuance of the same, commenced [?] cruising a [?] the [enemies] commerce & my orders directed me to visit certain seas in preference to others in obedience thereto, I found myself in May June + July of this year in the �Okhotsk Seas and Artic Ocean,� both places

Minister of Foreign Affairs
My Lord,
I have the honor to announce to your lordship the arrival in the waters off the �Mersey� with the vessel, lately a ship alone under my command, belonging to the �Confederate States of America�- The singular position in which I find myself places and the absence of all precedents on the august will , I trust, induce your Lordship to pardon a harty [?] to a few facts connected with the cruise lately made by the this ship. I commissioned the ship in October 1864 � under orders from the Navel Department of the Confederate States and in pursuance of the same, commenced [?] cruising a [?] the [enemies] commerce & my orders directed me to visit certain seas in preference to others in obedience thereto, I found myself in May June + July of this year in the �Okhotsk Seas and Artic Ocean,� both places